Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because General George Washington fought the Revolutionary War to a smart finish, Americans thought he would make a good peacetime President, nor were they disappointed. Precisely similar was the reasoning of Chinese, last week, when they chose the first President of the new Chinese Nationalist Government (TIME, May 2, 1927). Naturally and inevitably their choice fell upon the Nationalist Revolution's doughty "Man of Victory," famed Marshal Chiang Kai-shek...
...victoriously terminated. Everything now depends upon a continued spirit of unity among the people and within the Party. . . . Party members, when dissatisfied with any branch of the National Administration, should first advance their views in a friendly spirit in the expectation that it will be accepted. Failing this they may try the proper recourse through party headquarters. When such measure again fails, pressure may be brought to bear upon the Central Executive Committee of the party to reorganize the whole Government. But on no occasion shall party members attempt directly to interfere with the administration of the Government...
...quite different from chronological age. The beginning of physical aging is failure of the body to recuperate after pronounced physical strain. If repeated spells of recuperation are needed before recovery from such a strain ? that is not old age, but it is the shadow. Physical old age may frequently be seen in individuals of 30 or 40. Before 40 nearly all men and women have begun to feel the signs. Mental old age is a more subtle matter. It comes later than physical old age and the deterioration is slower. (Charles F. Collins, for 35 years head...
Mathematician, theologian, philosopher, preacher, author, trustee and president, Doctor William Herbert Perry Faunce has glorified his Alma Mater. As he walks down College Street next June he may call to mind his own words, "Human progress is not a delusion...
...Bernet of the Erie last week spoke to his employees as follows: "During the years gone by the Erie Railroad has been better known as a freight road than as a carrier of passengers. Perhaps the impression got about that the railroad did not welcome passenger traffic. Whatever it may have been, I want to make it plain now that the Erie is a railroad, not a freight road or a passenger road, but a railroad serving its public with all the kinds of transportation the public needs. We not only want passenger business; we are going after...